The Coalition’s sole answer to the rental affordability crisis is to cut international students, which take up about 4% of private rentals. COOOOOOLLLLLLLL

Dutton:

Rents are up by 18% under this Government. Let’s be clear about it. For every 42 international students who have come into Australia, one student accommodation place has been planned and approved but not built. So if we wonder why Aussie kids are 20 deep in a queue to try to rent a unit, or to try to find a place to, you know, to sleep, that’s part of the reason.

Now, we reduce the number of international students, we reduce the number of people coming through the migration program, and we massively increase the supply of housing – that’s how we can help young Australians who are renting or those who are seeking to buy. Labor has people on a treadmill at the moment and you’re going backwards.

People are going backwards as the figures demonstrate. Almost two years of household recession in this country under Labor – now, the Prime Minister wants to talk about everything but his record. He’ll throw mud and he’s negative and he’s out there with his scare campaigns because he doesn’t want you to believe that the next three years will be the same as the last three years but they will. What he’s promising is more of the same which is a disaster for people who are renting, for pensioners, for small businesses, for families, and we’re not going to have that situation. I want to be a Prime Minister who can fix the economy that Labor has damaged. I want to be a Prime Minister who can fix the cost-of-living crisis that Labor’s created.

I want to be a Prime Minister who can fix the housing dilemma that has been created over many budgets now and over many intakes through the migration program and Australians aren’t silly, they can see through the lies of the Prime Minister and the Labor Party. As we go to the next election, I believe Australians will make a decision about their future, what is in their best interest and in their best interests is to have a Coalition Government cleaning up Labor’s mess and putting in place good policies.